/*
 * Copyright 2007-2008  Lukasz Laszko lukaszlaszko@gmail.com
 * 
 * Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software
 * and its documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby
 * granted, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all
 * copies and that both that the copyright notice and this
 * permission notice and warranty disclaimer appear in supporting
 * documentation, and that the name of the author not be used in
 * advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the
 * software without specific, written prior permission.
 * 
 * The author disclaim all warranties with regard to this
 * software, including all implied warranties of merchantability
 * and fitness.  In no event shall the author be liable for any
 * special, indirect or consequential damages or any damages
 * whatsoever resulting from loss of use, data or profits, whether
 * in an action of contract, negligence or other tortious action,
 * arising out of or in connection with the use or performance of
 * this software. 
 */
package org.pg.biomedics.asr.mpeg7.code;

/**
 * A measure of the audio quality within this block
 * @author Lukasz Laszko
 */
public class BlockAudioTypes 
{
    /** no information is available */
    public static final String UNKNOWN = "unknown";
    
    /** the signal is known to be clean speech, suggesting a high likelihood of a good transcription */
    public static final String SPEECH = "speech";
    
    /** the signal is known to be non-speech. This might arise when segmentation would have been appropriate but inconvenient */
    public static final String NOISE = "noise";
    
    /** the signal is known to be speech, but with facets making recognition difficult */
    public static final String NOISY_SPEECH = "noisySpeech";
}
